12 Service Battalion Museum

The Sherman Armoury
5500 No. 4 Road
Richmond, BC
Tel: 666-4097
Fax: 666-4040

(Tues. & Thurs. Eves.)

Our Museum was established in 1990, by agreement of the then Commanding Officer, LCol JD Gemmell and the members of the 12 Service Battalion Society. Later in 1994 the Society Museum was accredited as a Canadian Forces (CF) Museum. We now have the distinction of having the support of both the 12 Service Battalion Society and the CF Museum organization of the DND.

The Colonel Sherman Armoury Main Entrance

The Museum is quartered within the foyer and hallways of The Sherman Armoury. Visitors who walk through the main entrance enter into a large foyer and are provided with a panorama view of the past. Situated along the walls of the foyer are large oak and glass display cases featuring exhibits of the 12 Service Battalion, the Canadian Forces and each of our Predecessor Corps, the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, the Royal Canadian Army Ordnance Corps, the Corps of the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and the Canadian Provost Corps. Throughout the hallways on either side of the foyer are other cased exhibits featuring Weapons, Medals, 3rd Div Petrol Company RCASC, United Nations and a Reference Library of over 1100 non-fiction military related volumes. The Museum is still expanding and is operated by volunteers of the 12 Service Battalion Society.

Badges of the
Predecessor Corps

Museum History

The initial meeting to form a 12 Service Battalion museum was held on 27 November 1989, under the authority of the Commanding Officer, LCol John Gemmell. This meeting was conducted by Honourary Colonel Larry Watkins and succeeded in forming the first Society/Museum Committee.

On 23 November the 12 (Vancouver) Service Battalion Society received it's Certificate of Incorporation.

On 20 Apr 1994 Canadian Forces Museum Accreditation was granted.

Museum Mission Statement

To collect, preserve, interpret and exhibit artifacts/ archives related to 12 Service Battalion, its predecessor Corps and other organizations connected to the military and social development of the unit.

Royal Canadian Army Service Corps

Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps

Royal Canadian Electrical Mechanical Engineers

Canadian Provost
Corps

The Royal Canadian
Army
Pay Corps

The Royal
Canadian
Postal
Corps

Canadian
Women's
Army
Corps

The Royal
Canadian
Army
Chaplain
Corps

Canadian
Intelligence Corps

Museum Articles

Honourary Colonel Watkins has written a series of interesting and informative articles about the Battalion and its predeccesor units, The Days of Yore.